The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest at Learning Point Associate, an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has launched the Midwest Education Atlas, an online repository of geographic data displays that map out the most recent data on high school dropout rates and give educators a new view ...
A project directed by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Egypt, and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has opened the country's largest school complex, a facility benefiting 4,600 students.
The American Institutes for Research issued the first round of new achievement reports in the Columbus School District as part of a pilot program for the Ohio Department of Education. These test score reports help parents and educators identify whether each child is learning what they need to know in ...
Proficiency standards used by states to measure student progress vary widely – with the gap between states with the highest and lowest standards amounting to as much as three to four grade levels, finds a new study by the American Institutes for Research (AIR).
A team of experts for AIR played a key role in producing "The 2010 Condition of Education," an annual statistical portrait of the state of education in the United States. The report was released by the federal government’s National Center on Education Statistics (NCES).
Some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools implementing a school intervention model funded by a School Improvement Grant (SIG) used more practices intended to improve student achievement than similar schools that didn’t implement a SIG-funded model. However, there was no evidence that SIG directly led to greater use of practices or ...
More than 70 members of the American Institutes for Research will be participating in this year's American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, discussing a wide range of topics, including the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), school bullying and high school reform. The AERA conference will be held on ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2022 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 21-24, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Built around the theme “From Reckoning to Racial Justice: Centering Underserved Communities in Research on Educational Effectiveness,” the conference will ...
After five years of effort, states have implemented most of the test-based accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and now must focus their efforts on improving poor-performing schools that ...
Education finance experts from AIR will present on a variety of topics at the 48th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, March 23-25 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver, Co. AEFP is dedicated to the promotion of research and partnerships that can inform education policy and ...